Facts about Greg Egan

Occup.	Scientist
From	Australia
Born	August 20, 1961
Age	63 years

Summary

Greg Egan is a famous Scientist from Australia, he/she is 63 years old and still alive, born August 20, 1961.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Greg.

14 Famous quotes by Greg Egan

"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't"

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"Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club"

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"Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century"

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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants"

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"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that"

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"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway"

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"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap"

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"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times"

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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published"

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"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software"

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"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people"

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"I've been taking longer to write stories lately"

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"I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before"

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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely"

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